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OK, that would be hard given the ubiquity of his name and business celebrity. But certainly in the political world, his brief 15 minutes were wrought with bombastic behavior that made establishment Republican leaders cringe and outwardly deny Trump’s credibility and ability to win the GOP primary.

That in and of itself may have made him all the more attractive to tea party conservatives looking to buck the “Republican establishment,” but when all is said and done, Trump suffered a huge embarrassment after President Obama presented his long-form birth certificate (whether or not one believes Trump was responsible for that) and a few days later, announces bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces. That contrast did more to belittle Trump as a potential credible presidential candidate, and show him for the petty, arrogant, self-serving, egomaniac his is – which is why he is so good at his current job and presumably why he is not running for president.

However, I sincerely believe it had more do to with the public humiliation Trump suffered at the hands of comedians and the political class, including President Obama himself, during the White House Correspondents Dinner weekend. Trump’s demeanor said it all then, and his subsequent actions say it all now – he clearly couldn’t take the political heat, so he got out of the kitchen.

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